South Sudan Revitalized Peace deal at a crossroad to collapse

South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, and his First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, addressing the media in the capital, Juba(Photo credit: SSPPU)

Sep 24, 2021(SSNN) — South Sudan’s three-year-old peace deal is doomed to collapse unless the parties can settle disputes and create a unified army, the main opposition faction said on Wednesday. The accord signed in September 2018 calls for the reunification of all fighters involved in the civil conflict, but the process has been marred by delays. The peace deal signed […]

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Opinion: The R-ARCSS is Collapsing But SPLM-IO is winning!

South Sudan’s First Vice President and SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny attends the 32nd Extraordinary Summit of the IGAD heads of states in Addis Ababa on June 21, 2018. (Photo credit: YONAS TADESSE/AFP via Getty Images)

By Mak Banguot Gok (Makjohnson), June 1, 2021 (SSNN) — The ideal implementation of R-ARCSS is what almost all South Sudanese are understanding to be an implementation by the warring parties in Juba. Faithful commitment to the agreement by those well-known schemers of ethnocentrisms hardly exists, even when citizens are hearing the mere pronouncements, and the half-done installation of R-TGoNU […]

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Dr. Machar meets the African Union Ambassador to South Sudan

First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, meeting the African Union (AU) Ambassador to South Sudan, Professor Joram Bisworo, September 28, 2020(Photo credit: OFVP/SSNN)

Sep 29, 2020(SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, met the African Union(AU) Ambassador to South Sudan, Professor Joram Bisworo, today in his office in the capital, Juba. According to Dr. Machar’s press officials, Dr. Joram Bisworo commended the First Vice President and the SPLM/A-IO leadership for their commitment to peace in the country. “The African […]

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Kiir, Machar to meet in Cairo next week over states deadlock – official

June 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, are preparing for a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo next week in a talk that will be hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a senior government official has said. The meeting, the senior government official said, will discuss the implementation […]

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Unity State Community in Kenya demands appointment of State Governors

Unity State Women Representative, Nyakuoth Yoah speaking During Unity State Leadership swearing- in in Nairobi(Photo credit: supplied/Nyamilepedia)

June 11, 2020 (SSNN) — Petitioning South Sudan presidency to establish State and Local governments, Unity State Community in Kenya demands that their governor must be appointed now without further delay.  “We want our governor now, so that together we can embark on unity and reconciliation drive in earnest. Should this logical demand be ignored and delayed than it will […]

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South Sudan Extends Partial Lockdown Indefinitely

Dr. Riek Machar Teny, South Sudan First Vice President, announcing the first case of Coronavirus at Pyramid Hotel, Juba, on April 5th, 2020(Photo credit: SSNN/supplied)

By Dimo Silva Aurelio, JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN, April 24, 2020(SSNN) —- The South Sudan High Level Taskforce for COVID-19 has extended the country’s partial lockdown until further notice. That means all schools and most shops will remain closed, as will South Sudan’s borders and Juba International Airport. The government was expected to lift the partial lockdown Monday, but at […]

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